Invoking the Holocaust, Racism and Other Strong Arm Tactics : NO QUARTER
Invoking the Holocaust, Racism and Other Strong Arm Tactics
By AnicloseAbout: See Authors Posts (7) on July 8, 2008 at 8:02 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, DNC, Democratic party, Donna Brazile, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Obama's Thugs, Race Card, Racism, Republicans, Superdelegates
My father was a concentration camp survivor so I had a rather visceral reaction to Senator Obama’s claim several weeks ago that his uncle helped liberate Auschwitz - an obvious lie, unless his uncle was with the Red Army. Then it was his great uncle and it was Buchenwald, well, no, it was a sub camp called Uhrsdurf or…oops, then there were questions because it seems his great uncle served in the navy not the army and so what exactly did he liberate again? I’m still waiting to see the paperwork.
Senator Obama, in his shameless pandering regarding one of the world’s worst atrocities, was trying to ‘liberate’ voters from reality. It seems supplanting facts with his ’special’ embellishments is a particular talent of his. He is constantly looking to make himself a hero by association. In his speeches, he raises the specter of every great leader we’ve ever had, conveniently mentioning himself in the same breath. This ‘holocaust’ fabrication, while one of many, was not one I took kindly to, for obvious reasons.
Dr. Kate’s June 6, 2008 article, “My Letter to the Editor re a Democratic Superdelegate’s Threats,” reports writing to California Super Delegate Steven J. Ybarra to question Obama’s qualifications for President and got the following response:
“[g]ood for you, when the fascists come in the middle of the night to take you to a concentration camp, remember how you voted.
[t]ake me off your whiner list…”
Is he intimating if we vote for John McCain, we will be taken to concentration camps?
While this Super Delegate may be a loose cannon, his response is not an isolated incident, in terms of some crass cruelty being leveled at those daring to question why the closest primary battle in history ended with the stronger candidate being forced out by pledges of a bunch of cowardly Super Delegates, each endorsement more phony and empty than the last.
I am not sure which ‘fascists’ this Super Delegate is referring to, but this sham of a nominating process makes it look like Pelosi, Dean, Brazile and company, in the process of working to build their new Democratic Party, are the ones acting like fascists.
Governor Kathy Sebelius intimates that Republicans are going to try to make us afraid to vote for Obama because of his race, when clearly the threat is that anyone who does not line up to support him, i.e., Hillary voters, will be labeled racist. And who will be doing the labeling, exactly? Does the fact that this man has no qualifications for the job matter or is that something we shouldn’t bother to worry our pretty little heads about?
Curious why Senator Obama keeps distracting us with racial issues we aren’t even pondering. But I guess the best defense is an offense.
Before turning in my new ‘Independent’ voter registration form at the post office on June 7th, I was a 30 year member of the Democratic Party. Thursday, I received a fund raising mailer from the DNC with the following in large bold letters on the outside of the envelope:
“IT’S TIME TO UNITE BEHIND BARACK OBAMA”
Wow. That kinda sorta sounds like an order to me. That is the first time I have ever received a piece of mail from the DNC telling me what “it is time” to do.
Perhaps all is not well in paradise.
Obama’s campaign manager, David Axelrod, is fond of reframing the electoral map so as to indicate my presence is no longer required at the party. So then why is the ‘Party’ ordering me to line up?
Donna Brazile replies to voters’ emails constantly telling them to ’stop the hate.’ What hate - her hate? She has been sending demoralizing missives privately to us for months, and implies on CNN that the ‘old’ base can sit this one out - our votes aren’t needed. According to Ms. Brazile, the new party has more urban, sophisticated voters. I see, so being born and raised in New York with an advanced degree makes me an uneducated, bigoted hick? Got it, Donna. And when I begged you months ago to vet this guy and you wrote ‘why the fear’ - I guess I was off base there too, huh?
The shape shifting Senator Obama has basically turned his back on every policy promise, so much so that even the New York Times editorial board is taking issue with him, but ‘why the fear?’ Despite caucus strong arm tactics, falsely labeling innocent people racists, and besmirching and misrepresenting Hillary Clinton’s record and policies, we should still trust him. Even though he never met a person, policy or issue he wasn’t willing to throw under the bus without as much as a backward glance.
Just ask Alice Palmer, bitter Pennsylvania voters, WV, KY, MI, FL, ‘Archie Bunkers’ from Ohio, Revs. Wright & Pfleger, TUCC, ’shoulder pad’ feminists and sweeties, Tony Rezko, Muslim women, his grandmother, FISA, gun control, MoveOn.Org, public financing, Iraq withdrawal, pro-choice policy, NARAL, Welfare recipients, oh yes, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Wes Clark… I could go on singing.
Feel free to add your own to the growing list…basically anyone who didn’t vote for him or endorse him ‘early enough.’ Some African American elected officials may now be facing primary challenges anyway as a result of not timely bowing before ‘the messiah.’
Hillary Clinton lived through six months of the most egregious, disgusting misogyny ever leveled at a candidate, and Howard Dean says he wasn’t aware of any of it because “he doesn’t watch cable television.” Got it.
Yep. Dean, Brazile and Pelosi, otherwise known as hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. And the millions of us out here, appalled at the carnival of clowns we’re watching - that’s not really happening. We’re just whining.
Oh, and Howard, where is Barack’s birth certificate, by the way? You know, the real one.
I am not a huge fan of John McCain, but since he ran as a moderate candidate eight years ago, only to be eviscerated by his own party, and since none other than Mr. Progressive from Massachusetts, John Kerry, tapped McCain to be his running mate in 2004, in the absence of my girl, Hillary, I’ll take my chances with ‘McCranky.’
And John Kerry is now picking up the slack trashing McCain’s military credentials, saying they do not qualify him to be President - even though McCain defended Kerry from the Swift boaters four years ago. Nice.
From The Hotline, March 20, 2008, NBC/NJ’s Mike Memoli reported Kerry said Obama “has an ability to help us bridge the divide in religious extremism, to maybe even give power to moderate Islam.” Why? Kerry answers: “Because he’s African American. Because he’s a black man.” Actually, he’s bi-racial, John, but don’t let the details bog you down. Is Obama’s white mother under that bus, too?
So skin color is now a qualification to be considered? This just gets better and better. What if Hillary Clinton said electing a woman would demonstrate that America has found a new compassion which would foster peace and harmony in the world. How would that fly?
But since Kerry’s original idea didn’t fly, I guess we now need new fear tactics to put Obama over the top, like threatening us with overturning Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS appointments and 100 years in Iraq - although Senator Obama has just this week moved to the right side of the aisle on all three issues, so who are we afraid of again?
Unless the abusive factions among super delegates and the DNC are going to stand with a gun to my head on November 4th, not unlike the figurative gun held to Senator Clinton’s head to get her to bow out, nobody controls how I vote.
Judging by the behavior of Senator Obama, and his cadre at the DNC, the only fascism I see is coming from those actively working to stop an open convention by forcing Hillary’s name off the ballot, ordering us to vote their way and threatening vile slander if we don’t.
These grown-ups, these leaders of the Democratic Party, having pulled a fast one, are furious at being caught with their hands in the cookie jar. That we refuse to make nice and imitate their “see no evil” posture has them behaving like rude, bullying children in the playground, who, upon having learned a vile curse word, can’t wait to crush all around them with a phrase so destructive, they neither comprehend its meaning or care about the consequences of branding someone falsely.
Many in this country, regardless of ethnicity or background, know what it is like to be on the real end of persecution and injustice.
There is no excuse for any of our elected representatives to dare invoke these filthy words like bullies in a schoolyard so they may claim power over us, and tell us what “it is time” to do.
THIS ABOUT SAYS IT ALL FOR ME!! AND YOU WONDER WHY MANY JEWISH WON'T VOTE FOR OBAMALIAR? wHEN HE TOTALLY LIED ABOUT HIS UNCLE SAVING JEWS IN Auschwitz..AND THE STORY CHANGED FOR DAYS UNTIL OBAMA FINALLY SHUT UP LEAVING THE LIE SITTING THERE!!
on June 22, 2008 at 7:11 PM in AIPAC, Austan Goolsbee, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Civil Rights, Cultist Thugs, David Axelrod, Democratic party, FISA, Federal Elections Commission, Freedom of Speech, Iraq, Joe Biden, John McCain, Karl Rove, Media, Media Bias, Messiah, NAFTA, Obama's Thugs, Obamatopia, Obamedia, Qualifications, Republicans, Samantha Power, birth certificate
By Webster G. Tarpley
Washington DC, June 21 — Tonight political prisoner Larry Sinclair is spending his fourth night in the DC Jail, the victim of a Gestapo-style enemies’ list operation carried out just three blocks from the White House last Wednesday afternoon.
Sinclair had come to the National Press Club to detail his charges that the self-proclaimed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama had indulged in two homosexual encounters complete with crack cocaine in early November 1999, that Obama was complicit in the December 2007 assassination of Donald Young, the gay choirmaster of Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ, and that’s Obama’s resident perception monger, David Axelrod, had paid the pornographic website Whitehouse.com $750,000 to organize a campaign of character assassination against Sinclair, culminating in a faked polygraph test. At the close of the press conference, Sinclair was arrested inside the press club by US Marshals and DC police, apparently based on an old Delaware warrant.
GESTAPO TACTICS IN THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, THE TEMPLE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Where are the civil libertarians? Where are the paladins of the ACLU? Where is the outcry and the indignation? Is no one concerned about threats to lynch a gay man for political reasons in the heart of the nation’s capital? Where are the left liberals who have been ostensibly so concerned about civil rights and civil liberties from Nixon to Bush-Cheney? Perhaps they are sleeping, or perhaps they have drunk the Obama Kool-Aid and have become morally insane.
Or perhaps they are so obsessed with the reform of the FISA law and the danger that Bush might be listening in to their telephone calls that they do not notice when a prominent critic of a presidential candidate who is infamously a darling of the establishment media is actually arrested, taken into custody and led away, the target of Gestapo tactics in the National Press Club, the sanctum sanctorum of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the First Amendment generally.
Surely the weak sisters who have joined Obama’s fifth column are morally insane when they joke about how Barky’s Myrmidons were able to arrest Sinclair. If the First Amendment does not apply to speech which is not popular with the establishment and the mob, then the First Amendment does not exist at all, for anybody. Any journalist or writer should be able to see that they themselves may be next, now that the US Marshals are serving as the “Fight the Smears” enforcement arm of the Obama campaign. Selective and vindictive prosecution, anyone?
The mere fact that Larry Sinclair had been able to hold such a successful press conference was already a serious defeat for the corrupt and brutal Obama machine.
Sinclair had appeared in the Holeman Lounge before more than a hundred journalists, with 10 cameras set up on tripods in the back of the room. The number of handheld cameras, camcorders, and tape recorders was beyond counting. The press conference was dignified, businesslike, factual. There was no screaming, no disruption, no threats or insults.
Every journalist who wanted to ask a question was given ample opportunity to do so, and about three dozen questions were asked. Reasonable follow-ups were allowed.
There were journalists from Britain, from Germany, from India, from China. Most of the questions represented honest attempts to pin down the facts of what was being alleged.
Sinclair’s honesty compared favorably to most politicians today. He started his presentation with a detailed admission of his criminal record, jail time served, his pending court motion to dismiss an old Colorado warrant, and a statement that his troubles with the law date back more than 20 years to 1980-1986.
In the question-and-answer segment, Sinclair gave a straight answer to every question he was asked. He did not dodge questions, he did not prevaricate, he did not refuse to answer questions, and he did not bungle his answers. Sinclair has made serious mistakes in life, as he readily concedes. But Sinclair is not a candidate, not a person who has to be evaluated by the public and then accepted or rejected.
Sinclair comes forward as a witness with a series of allegations to make and a story to tell. It is up to public opinion and most emphatically the news media to evaluate those allegations and those facts, including through the efforts of enterprising investigative journalists anxious to make a name for themselves by finding out the truth about what is potentially the biggest political scandal of the century. Obama, after all, is the candidate of whom we know little and who needs urgently to be evaluated.
The issue posed is not what you think about Larry Sinclair. The overriding issue is the presidency in a time of military defeat, institutional crisis, and economic breakdown.
HOMOPHOBIC DEATH THREATS AGAINST SINCLAIR
Obama’s lemming legions, and especially his notorious mercenary squadristi of the Internet, had done everything possible to sabotage and disrupt Sinclair’s press conference. One Obama backer had issued a categorical death threat against Sinclair in terms that made it abundantly clear that a homophobic hate murder might be in the offing. The FBI and the District of Columbia police had shown zero interest in offering Sinclair protection against a possible hit by one of Obama’s fanatics.
Once it is accepted that police agencies can intervene in political campaigns, it is possible to a rest or detain almost anyone if the interest is great enough. The old warrant used to incarcerate Sinclair most probably refers to events already covered by the statute of limitations.
If nothing can be found at this level, there are always old parking tickets and library fines that can be ginned up. Any political candidate who has had dealings with the Federal Elections Commission can be hauled in on some minor technical violation. The precedent established by last Wednesday’s events at the National Press Club is exceedingly ominous for the public life of this country.
The irony is that repression is now being carried out not to help the Republicans but under ultra-left cover, to help the radical subversive Obama.
Since the warrant used as the pretext to arrest Sinclair apparently came from Delaware, our attention naturally turns to Senator Joe Biden, the incorrigible blowhard and defeated presidential candidate who is now known to be angling for the post of vice president or Secretary of State in a future Obama regime.
We also note that Biden’s son, the nepotist Beau Biden, is the current Attorney General of Delaware. As the cops would say, the Biden machine, anxious to ingratiate themselves with Obama, had the means, motive, and opportunity to arrange this outrageous arrest. For those gullible enough to believe that civil liberties might improve under an Obama regime, this ought to provide a reality shock.
Do not assume that civil liberties will get better under Obama; the evidence is now that they will get worse. Obama’s National Press Club caper is as blatant as anything seen under Bush – and Barky is not even in the White House.
At the end of his detailed indictment of Obama, Sinclair demanded information on four points. The first involves Obama as phone records for November 3, 1999 through November 8, 1999 — the time frame of the two allegedly encounters between Obama and Sinclair, mediated by Paramjit Multani of Five Star Limo at O’Hare Airport. The second involves Obama’s phone records for September 2007 — December 23, 2007, when Sinclair was receiving probing phone calls from Donald Young about how much Sinclair had revealed concerning Obama — calls that ended when Young was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds just before Christmas 2007.
Sinclair’s third demand for clarification touches communications from Obama, Axelrod, and campaign manager David Plouffe to Whitehouse.com in January and February 2008. Sinclair’s fourth point regards possible payments by Obama, Obama’s campaign, Axelrod, Plouffe, and Axelrod’s AKP Message and Media to Whitehouse.com in that same time frame of January-February 2008.
OBAMA MUST ANSWER, NOT EVADE
It is now up to Obama to answer these charges. It is imperative that this be done now, without further delay. No responsible citizen wants a president who can be blackmailed and thus turned into a puppet because he is hiding secrets about bisexual activities, crack cocaine, political murder, and character assassination campaigns.
It is also up to the great news organizations, including ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and the Washington Post, to carry out their responsibility to the public. These news organizations should not play the role of kept courtesans of those in political power. As Sinclair pointed out, he has told his story and has thus done everything he can.
It is now up to the great media concerns to locate and interview the limo driver Paramjit Multani, to investigate the relevant telephone records, and above all to question Obama himself about this very serious matter. It is not up to the corporate media to sit back and sniff about whether a Sinclair has conclusively proven his own case to their satisfaction or not; the proving or disproving is the responsibility of the media, and let them make damn sure that they get it right.
By today’s journalistic standards, Sinclair’s allegations are extraordinarily substantive already, especially when compared with some other major scandal allegations heard during the primaries. Sinclair has filed a federal civil suit against Obama and Axelrod, complete with sworn affidavits and court papers.
This means that he is willingly risking Rule 11 penalties for filing a frivolous lawsuit.
He has also made statements to the Chicago police about his contacts with murder victim Donald Young. These steps represent a very high degree of public commitment by Sinclair to the truth of what he is saying.
Compare this to the shoddy standards of the New York Times which, on February 21, 2008 published and prominently displayed on its front page an innuendo about a supposed sex affair between Senator McCain and a certain Vicki Iseman, a Washington lobbyist. Not one single solitary named source was cited to support this innuendo. Or, take the case of Vanity Fair magazine, the house organ of decadent left liberalism, which included a slander piece entitled “The Comeback Id” by Todd Purdom in its July 2008 issue. Here again, there was not one single named source who was willing to have his or her name publicly associated with Purdom’s sleazy allegations.
It is painfully obvious that there is one set of journalistic standards for the Perfect Master Obama, and another and much laxer set for the competition. This is intolerable.
NO PRIVACY FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO ACCESS THE NUCLEAR BUTTON
It is fair to say that the idea of a private sphere for US presidential candidates about which the general public is not entitled to know anything became obsolete at the same time that intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads became available around 1960 to 1965. Since then, every presidential candidate has in effect appeared before the public asking to get his or her hands on the thermonuclear button that can start World War III.
At this point, the notion of a private sphere for presidential candidates becomes wholly untenable. In this day and age, we have the right to know everything but everything about presidential nominees who are asking for our votes.
We have a right to know their full personal histories, with no exceptions, no omissions, and no withheld documents.
We have a right to know if they are HIV-positive and whether they ever registered for the draft.
We want to know if they have received electroshock, psychopharmaca, and whether they have been treated by a psychiatrist.
We have a right to see their birth certificate, their college transcript, their senior thesis if they wrote one, their law school transcript, their passport, papers from earlier times in public office, and all other relevant documents.
We have a right to know about their mother, their father, their sister, their brother, their Aunt Tilly, their best friends at all stages of life, their boyfriends, their girlfriends, their pets, their backers, their sponsors, their gurus, their controllers, and their associates of every kind.
More than a right to know these things, we have an imperative duty to find them out.
For they are asking to get their hands on the thermonuclear button, the misuse of which can unleash a thermonuclear fireball that will not respect any aspect of the privacy of ourselves and our family.
Naturally, candidates are free to make their own choices in life just like everybody else: they can choose their religion, their personal associations, their forms of recreation, and all the rest in any way that they like.
But none of this — absolutely nothing — can be claimed as a secret off limits to the attention of the public. All of it must be thoroughly investigated, aired, and published when the presidency is at stake.
An Air Force crewman at a missile silo in the Dakotas goes through a background check which leaves scant room for privacy. We must demand nothing less from presidential candidates.
OBAMA’S COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND ALLEGED COCAINE USE
Larry Sinclair alleges that Obama has indulged in crack cocaine. Those familiar with the public literature about the current tenant of the White House know very well that there are many indications that his extraordinarily low level of performance may derive from cognitive impairment brought on by habitual cocaine use. How many more coke fiends in the White House are compatible with the further national survival of the United States?
Ronald Reagan notoriously suffered from cognitive impairment and constantly made his remarks off index cards which he kept hidden in his hands. Those index cards were a low-tech version of the glass plates of the Teleprompter upon which Obama relies.
As soon as he cannot read his words off those glass plates, Obama begins to stutter, to stammer and babble, to hem and to haw, repeatedly losing his syntax and constantly interjecting “um” and “you know.” What if Obama’s cocaine use really did extend beyond 1981, as he suggests in his memoir, and continued all the way to late 1999 at the very least, as Sinclair is alleging?
That might suggest that Obama suffers from greater cognitive impairment than Bush, as Obama’s incredible series of gaffes at the end of the primaries also indicates. Larry Sinclair stressed during his press conference that he has been a gay man all his life, and that he regarded the crack cocaine issue as the central one, at least until the time of the Donald Young murder.
During the press conference, Sinclair announced that he was willing to make his own personal medical records, including mental health records, available to responsible representatives of accredited news organizations, at their own expense.
That means that Sinclair is much more forthcoming about his medical history than Obama, who has withheld his medical records and offered a single meaningless page of advertising copy signed by his personal physician. And remember that Sinclair is not running for any office, while Obama wants to be president.
TWO MONTHS TO THE ROLL CALL OF THE STATES, AUGUST 27
The Democratic Party still has more than two months in which these very serious, substantive, and detailed allegations against its presumptive candidate can be thoroughly investigated.
It is unthinkable that any responsible political leader would be willing to see Obama receive the nomination while this sword of Damocles hangs over his head. Larry Sinclair’s videotape has been on the Internet since mid-January, and it has at various times been the object of discussion on something approaching a million websites.
The issues are Obama’s crack cocaine use, his bisexuality, his possible involvement in the Donald Young assassination, and the allegations of character assassination and harassment against Sinclair funded by the Obama campaign.
Karl Rove knows all about each one of these points, and there is no way to deter Karl Rove and his cohorts.
So, although it may seem incomprehensible to Obama’s drooling acolytes, the interest of the Democratic Party is best served by thorough airing of these allegations to before the roll call of the states is held on August 27, 2008 — and this is exactly what Sinclair has been trying to do since mid-January.
If Sinclair had been a GOP deployment, he would simply have waited for September or October to come forward.
There are of course those who lament and regret that it is necessary to dredge up the sordid details of a figure like Obama. They say that it is better to use political campaigns to talk about issues.
This document may sound plausible, but it is totally wrong, and the fault rests with Obama.
First, Obama does not campaign on issues in any systematic way. He presents himself as the Perfect Master, the Anointed One, the Savior, the Messiah, the Mahdi. His hysterical followers are obsessed, not with a political program or a set of issues, but with the personality cult of Obama. This means that any attempt to engage Obama on the issues is by definition an impotent and self-defeating tactic.
The only useful objections that can be made to Obama are ad hominem biographical revelations designed to show that he is not so anointed after all, and that his ability to walk on water has been overestimated.
Then there is also the matter of Obama’s notorious duplicity and flip-flops even where he does have specific positions on certain issues. First Obama wanted a fixed schedule for getting out of Iraq, but Samantha Power revealed that this was not the case at all. Barky said he wanted a different kind of foreign policy, and then he pandered to AIPAC, probably lying through his teeth in the process. First, Obama wanted to help the lower income brackets, but now he is talking about cutting the corporate income tax. Obama attacked free trade in Ohio and Pennsylvania, even as his top economic controller, Austan Goolsbee of the Friedmanite Chicago school reassured the Canadians that this was just election posturing; now Obama has told Fortune magazine that he likes free trade and is devoted to “free markets.”
First, Obama was going to be tough on FISA; now he is going along with the Democratic congressional leaders as they attempt to appease Bush.
Obama had built his career on ethics in government and reducing the role of political contributions; now he has turned his back on the only meager legislative achievements by becoming the first presidential candidate in modern times to repudiate matching funds in the general election.
On all these points, to attempt a substantive debate with Obama is a fool’s errand. The only way to pin Barky down is through pointed reference to crucial facts in his own background, biography, and associations which cannot be changed or swept under the rug. Any other approach is deliberate impotence and capitulation.
FREE LARRY SINCLAIR!
In the meantime, Larry Sinclair is still sitting in the DC jail. He could be extradited to Delaware at any time.
What kind of a presidential campaign are we going to have when critics of the most radical subversive to ever get this close to the presidency have to worry about a knock on the door in the middle of the night? It is time to put massive public pressure on the Obama campaign to drop their enemies’ list operation against Larry Sinclair, and to release him from jail at once.
Webster G. Tarpley is the author of Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate
Webster Griffin Tarpley is an author, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. He maintains that the events of 9/11 were engineered by the military industrial complex. He envisions a model of false flag terror operated by a rogue network of independent operatives in the privatized military intelligence sector and corporate media.
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Tarpley earned a BA at Princeton University in 1966 in English and Italian, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin, Italy. Master of Arts in humanities from Skidmore College.
In 1986 Tarpley attempted to run on the platform of Lyndon LaRouche in the New York State Democratic Party primary for the U.S. Senate, but was ruled off the ballot because of a defect in his nominating petitions.[1]. He was a frequent host of "The LaRouche Connection", which its producer, LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review News Service,[2][3] describes as "a news and information cable television program".[4]
Tarpley first gained attention for co-authoring, with Anton Chaitkin, ("history editor of Executive Intelligence Review") a 1992 book on George H.W. Bush, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, which was published by Executive Intelligence Review, run by Lyndon LaRouche.[5] He has expounded the "Versailles Thesis" laying the blame for the great wars of the 20th century on intrigues by Britain to retain her dominance.[6] He gained experience as a political operative during his years with the LaRouche movement but broke away in the mid-1990s.
In 2005, Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA gained a following. Tarpley speaks at length about the themes in his book during an interview in the film Oil, Smoke, Mirrors.
Starting March, 2006, Tarpley had a weekly talk radio show called "World Crisis Radio" for Republic Broadcasting Network. Following a split between Wes Perkins and John Stadtmiller in January 2007, Tarpley apparently left RBN and moved to Genesis, where he presented originally the Thursday edition of "Genesis World Report"; his slot has since moved to Saturday. The format remains as a "world intelligence roundup", quite similar to his RBN show.
Tarpley is a member of the "world anti-imperialist conference" Axis for Peace, of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and of a research Netzwerk of German 9/11 authors founded in September 2006.
In August, 2007, Webster Tarpley issued the Kennebunkport Warning, which claimed an impending "false flag attack" in America in the "coming months."[7] Controversy ensued after Jamilla El-Shafei, Cindy Sheehan, Dahlia Wasfi, and Ann Wright issued a joint-statement claiming that they did not sign this Kennebunkport Warning.[8]
Beginning in January 2008, Tarpley warned that a shift in power has taken place in the ruling class, with the Brzezinski faction and its presidential candidate Obama ascendant over the lame-duck neocons. Tarpley said that the targets of U.S. imperialism would now be Russia, China and its ally Pakistan, instead of Iraq, Iran and Syria.[9]
Michelle Obama to get unprecedented campaign team
Posted: 06:52 AM ET
From CNN Correspondent Jessica Yellin
Michelle Obama will be surrounded by a team of veteran aides.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is planning to beef up the team surrounding his wife Michelle Obama, to give her the kind of professional campaign veterans experienced in rapid response to negative attacks – the kind of staff that is usually only seen around an actual candidate, according to a senior aide.
The move is meant to address concerns within the campaign that Michelle Obama will be the target of significant attacks from conservatives this year. Their pre-emptive response is a team that one aide says is unprecedented in presidential politics. According to multiple aides, this team will work with Mrs. Obama to modify her stump speech — in part to include more stories from the voters she met during the primary season — in a bid to counter criticism by some conservatives that she is out of touch.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Former Kerry campaign Communications Director Stephanie Cutter has already been tapped as Mrs. Obama’s chief of staff, and additional staff will be hired in the coming weeks.
Aides say they expect Mrs. Obama to make occasional campaign stops over the next several weeks — including roundtables with military wives, and a womens’ event next week – before hitting the trail full time around July 4.
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer Wed Jun 18, 6:40 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Democratic and GOP leaders in the House announced agreement Wednesday on a long-overdue war funding bill they said President Bush would be willing to sign.
The agreement on the war funding bill, announced by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, also paves the way for a quick infusion of emergency flood relief for the Midwest, an extension of unemployment payments for the jobless and a big boost in GI Bill college for veterans.
It would also provide about $165 billion to the Pentagon to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for about a year. That's enough time for Bush's successor to set Iraq policy.
"This is an agreement that has been worked out in a bipartisan way that I think is acceptable to both most Democrats and most Republicans and to the White House," Boehner said.
Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the agreement contains several priorities for Democrats in the Senate but stopped short of issuing a direct endorsement, saying Reid needed to consult with his colleagues.
The agreement would require that the Senate would agree to drop most of the more than $10 billion it added last month for programs such as heating subsidies for the poor, wildfire fighting, road and bridge repair and help for the Gulf Coast.
The House is slated to pass the measure Thursday, but the Senate won't turn to it until next week, Manley said.
The agreement drops restrictions on Bush's ability to conduct the war and gives him almost all of the funding he sought well over a year ago for Iraq and Afghanistan. But he also backed away from veto threats he issued earlier over Democrats' insistence on using the Iraq funding bill to carry a generous boost in the GI Bill and a 13-week extension of unemployment payments for people whose benefits have run out.
Democrats dropped a provision to extend unemployment benefits for an additional 13 weeks in states with particularly high unemployment rates.
The war funding bill had bedeviled Democratic leaders for months. Its passage has become more urgent with looming furloughs next month of civilian employees and contract workers.
Conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats are upset that the new GI Bill benefits, with costs tentatively estimated at $62 billion over the next decade, will be added to the deficit instead of being "paid for" as called for under House rules.
But the White House and Republicans insisted that House Democrats' offset — a one-half percentage point surcharge on wealthier taxpayers — was unacceptable.
Boehner and Hoyer would not immediately release details, saying the verbal agreement had yet to be written in congressional legalese.
The agreement came just a day after the Bush administration urged Congress to provide $1.8 billion in immediate disaster aid for the Midwest and elsewhere. Congress is likely to add a little more, though details had not been ironed out.
A dozen senators in both parties are pressing to add money for levee repair and help for displaced homeowners, among other pressing needs.
Democrats and governors across the country emerged the victors in a battle with the White House to block new Bush administration rules designed to cut spending on Medicaid health care for the poor and disabled.
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